December 12, 2012

ManageEngine ADManager Plus Wins Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards from Windows IT Pro Magazine for the Second Consecutive Year

PLEASANTON, Calif. - December 12, 2012 - ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that its Active Directory identity and access management solution, ADManager Plus, has been named a silver medal winner of  the "2012 Editors' Best Awards" and "2012 Community Choice Awards" by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro magazine. This is the second consecutive year that ADManager Plus won the awards in the "Best Active Directory/Group Policy Product" category.

The 2012 Editors' Best Awards are based on a product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages, and its value to customers. For the Community Choice Awards, readers nominate and vote for their favorite products. Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Pro, and Dev Pro awards programs ensure a breadth of inclusion in the surveys.

"For our 2012 Editors’ Best Awards, we've leveraged the industry expertise of our editors and authors to bring additional recognition to great products in today's market," said Jason Bovberg, senior editor, Windows IT Pro. "We're proud to now share this invaluable information with our Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro communities. For our 2012 Community Choice awards, we continued our unique process of letting the tech community both nominate and vote for their favorite products. The winners of these awards are truly the community favorites. The 2012 winners should be extremely proud of this recognition."

"Winning these awards twice in a row is a humbling experience. It signifies our commitment to offer value to our customers and keeping our software relevant to the changing market needs. In fact, we released ADManager Plus version 6 last month and are enhancing it already," said Manikandan Thangaraj, director of product management, ManageEngine. "We are honored that the Windows IT Pro editors and community recognized our software’s importance."

For more information on ManageEngine ADManager Plus, please visit www.admanagerplus.com. For more information on ManageEngine, please visit www.manageengine.com; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

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About Windows IT Pro

The Windows IT Pro community is the heartbeat of the Windows IT world—a gathering of people, content and resources focused on Microsoft Windows technologies and applications. It’s a “community” in every sense, bringing an independent, uncensored voice to IT managers, network and systems administrators, developers, systems analysts, CIOs, CTOs, and other technologists at companies worldwide. Visit www.windowsitpro.com today to learn more.

About Penton Media

As a leading, independent, business-to-business media company, Penton knows business and how to create and disseminate vital content that moves markets. Penton is where professionals turn to gain the critical insight, expert analysis and relevant connections needed to compete and succeed. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

About ManageEngine ADManager Plus

ManageEngine ADManager Plus is a web-based Windows Active Directory management and reporting solution that helps AD administrators and help desk technicians accomplish their day-to-day activities. With an intuitive, easy-to-use user interface, ADManager Plus handles a variety of complex tasks and generates an exhaustive list of AD Reports, some of which are an essential requirement to satisfy compliance audits. For more information on ManageEngine ADManager Plus, visit https://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/.

About ManageEngine

ManageEngine delivers the real-time IT management tools that empower an IT team to meet an organization’s need for real-time services and support. Worldwide, more than 65,000 established and emerging enterprises - including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500 - rely on ManageEngine products to ensure the optimal performance of their critical IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more. ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp. with offices worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, India, Japan and China. For more information, please visit https://www.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.

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